Don't know. There's quite a bit of information here if anyone wants to read it -- don't have time to do more than skim today myself, tho I'm interested in an academic way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland
An alternate theory is that there may not have been many Native American settlements right there - L'Anse aux Meadows is not the most hospitable place I'd guess, based on geography. And hmm, what people would that be? Inuit? Wouldn't you need more than a kayak to get there? On the other hand, the wiki article seems to be saying the Norse were visiting a region a lot bigger than that. It's an interesting question. On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > > I was thinking that Greenland had regular contact with Norway and > Denmark, not exactly the most isolated of areas. I would have expected > that mainly after the settlement of the vinland theree would have been > some outbreak. > > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > no epidemics going on there at the time they left? Also, didn't the > people > > who landed in Newfoundland and Quebec come from the Greenland > settlements? > > They would have been pretty isolated from disease vectors in Europe (?) > > Just thinking out loud -- I don't know any more about this than I just > read. > > > > On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> > >> I did a couple of archeological field schools in college. One was at > >> L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland. I sincerely hope that the winters > >> were mild there (they were not), because those huts were pretty > >> miserable. While most of the six weeks were just scraping away as the > >> dirt, I did find a couple of flint arrowheads at about the right depth > >> for the time period. So at the very least there were locals near the > >> Vikings campsite roughly around the same time as the Viking Sagas. > >> > >> One thing about that massive disease outbreak after Spain started > >> sending ships to the west, why didn't something similar happen when > >> the Vikings came over? > >> > >> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Eric Roberts > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> > You should go to Chillicothe Maureen... You can still hear the voices > >> > echoing... > >> > > >> > -----Original Message----- > >> > From: Maureen [mailto:[email protected]] > >> > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 7:32 PM > >> > To: cf-community > >> > Subject: Re: 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of > America > >> > > >> > > >> > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Eric Roberts > >> > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Chillicothe, OH. Other mounds in their culture include the mounds > >> >> just east of St. Louis, MO in Cahokia, IL. > >> > > >> > I visited the Cahokia mounds about 15 years ago. Beautiful spot, but > >> > spiritually dead. When those folks left they took everything with > them, > >> > even their power. > >> > > >> > The Rock Eagle Mound in east Georgia, however, is still so powerful > that > >> the > >> > air around it sings. It would have been magical to attend one of the > >> > ceremonies there > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351498 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
